"Man, when he gets hot like that, it's hard not to be excited and hard not to pass him the ball," guard Victor Oladipo said. "When we shoot with him in practice, he'll go for like, 15, 20 [points] in a row. He can really shoot the ball so when he gets hot, that's really good for us."

Oladipo first experienced Moore's shooting prowess years ago, when he played for Indiana and Moore for Purdue. "So it really doesn't surprise me," Oladipo said.

In Moore's second-quarter flurry in the Magic's win against the Brooklyn Nets, he hit five consecutive shots and was a perfect 6-of-6 on the night.

"I did hit one or two shots and started feeling good," Moore said. "Then they felt like on fire so they kept feeding them to me and I kept knocking them down."

Tobias Harris said he thought Moore's shooting deflated the Nets. Moore hit a 3-pointer at the end of the third quarter and finished with 17 points.

"It was pretty special what he was doing out there," Harris said. "For him to be out there making shots like that, it kind of was discouraging the other team."

So much Moore

Moore, 25, can become a free agent at the end of the season. He is effectively auditioning for another NBA contract.

But he prefers to stay with the Magic. "Most definitely," Moore said. "Orlando has been good to me. It's great here. We got a lot of young guys and I feel like we've grown up together."

Moore took some of the money he earned as a player and bought his parents a four-bedroom house in an Indiana suburb last summer. It was the first house his family had ever lived in. And it was a far cry from growing up in apartment complexes in a dangerous, crime-riddled East Chicago, Ind. area.

"It was something I wanted to do for them when I was younger," he said. "We always lived in the projects. My mother always wanted to get a house. It was great to see my parents happy and smiling after all they had done for me."

O'Quinn praised

Power forward Kyle O'Quinn is, by far, the leader on the team in blocked shots. He has 83, but few were bigger than his rejection of Nets small forward Joe Johnson's potential game-tying 3-pointer with 9.9 seconds left.

"It was pretty much the play [of the game]," Johnson said. "We didn't execute it well enough to get a good look. I tried to get a little room and he kind of read it and got a good block."

O'Quinn, a second-year player out of Norfolk State, also made a nice pass to Maurice Harkless just before his block. Harkless took it in for a dunk to stretch the Magic's lead to three with 24.6 seconds left.

"It just really shows how he's getting better on a daily basis," coach Jacque Vaughn said of O'Quinn.

Tip-off time change

The start of the Magic's regular-season finale against the Indiana Pacers next Wednesday night at Amway Center has been changed from 8 p.m. to 7 p.m.